Available, inexpensive technology can now transform worlds up-to-yesterday inaccessible into comfortably explorable environments, ready to disclose to our senses their most concealed features. While Jupiter's moons and Mars' landscape mysteries show themselves by a gentle mouse click in our leaving-rooms, other terrestrial, man-forged marvels no one can step on, are waiting for the million-hit visiting contacts. In this domestic universe, still untargeted by any mission, the leaning tower of Pisa is one silvery star which has been chosen for exploration. Why?

Virtual re-opening of the leaning tower

Fusani M;Salvetti O
1997

Abstract

Available, inexpensive technology can now transform worlds up-to-yesterday inaccessible into comfortably explorable environments, ready to disclose to our senses their most concealed features. While Jupiter's moons and Mars' landscape mysteries show themselves by a gentle mouse click in our leaving-rooms, other terrestrial, man-forged marvels no one can step on, are waiting for the million-hit visiting contacts. In this domestic universe, still untargeted by any mission, the leaning tower of Pisa is one silvery star which has been chosen for exploration. Why?
1997
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo" - ISTI
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